**EXCLUSIVE** MEDIA WARS: NY TIMES RUSHES CONTROVERSIAL MURDOCH INVESTIGATION, NOW SET FOR PUBLICATION THIS SUNDAY, INSIDERS TELL DRUDGE... MORE... EDITORS HOPE TO HAVE DIRECT IMPACT ON PENDING MURDOCH OFFER TO BUY NYT RIVAL, WALL STREET JOURNAL... 'THE REPORTING IS NOT DONE, IT'S BEING RUSHED,' SAYS TOP INSIDER... THE EXPOSE WILL RUN OVER 3,500-WORDS, AND IS BEING DESCRIBED AS AN 'AGGRESSIVE' EXAMINATION ON MURDOCH, HIS ASIAN WIFE, AND ATTEMPTS TO EXPAND HIS MEDIA EMPIRE... DEVELOPING...
--From The Drudge Report, Friday afternoon. Drudge scoops, I report you, you decide.
But as noted here at TCG on Wednesday, Michael Calderone of The New York Observer has had the goods on this apparent effort by the Times to "torpedo" the deal.
And while we won't know for sure for another day or so, the tone of the above Drudge item certainly suggests what I have suspected all along--that the Times' corporate leadership has directed the editorial and news sides of the paper to go "full auto" against Murdoch. Not that either the opinion-mongers on the editorial page--or the opinion-mongers on the news pages!--probably needed much prodding.
The fix is in. And while I think that the News Corp-Wall Street Journal deal is going to go through, this forthcoming story is likely to stand as a monument to the deep intellectual corruption of the Times.
